Re: dialectal diversity in English
| From: | Robert B Wilson <han_solo55@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 7, 2003, 20:05 |
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On Thu, 8 May 2003 10:18:50 +0700 Daniel Ryan Prohaska
<daniel@...> writes:
> >
> > The dialects from South Carolina are closer to being a seperate
> > language than are the ones from West Virginia. :)
>
> I would never consider any of the American spoken varieties to be
> any
> thing approaching separate languages, not even some of the more
> conservative Appalachian varieties. As far as I can tell, American
> dialcets are all still fairly close to, well not exactly standard
> English, but some kind of "general" English. Only the phonology and
> vocab. Varies to certain extent.
> I consider Scots to be a separate language.
i consider scots to be about as far from my dialect as most west
virginian dialects are (actually, i sometimes think scots is closer...),
so if scots is a separate language...
> Dan
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